Retinoblastoma

[Loolah24]

Hi I'm not sure if I am writing this is the right place or if anyone can help. I've just had a picture of my daughter emailed to me coz she is concerned about the presence of red eye in only one eye. I've stupidly been sc

Cont. scouring the Internet and have freaked myself out about eh above condition. Does anyone know if it possible to have one red eye and that is not a cause for concern? I have the photo if anyone thinks looking at it might help?
Thanks in advance .

Iirc I don't think it's the presence or absence of a red eye that rings alarm bells, but the light glinting off one eye and the other looking black?

Obviously you should run it by your GP, but don't freak out

Ok, I was a bit wrong!

According to this, red eye is what you expect to see, but in retinoblastoma the flash causes the pupil to look white.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002025/

Have a look on here OP www.chect.org.uk/cms/

Retinoblastoma is usually inherited and sporadic cases (like my DBil) are very rare.

Take a few more photos, if it looks like that in all of them you should go to your gp and get your DC checked. It is probably just that photo.